Lend a Hand for Diabetes Awareness

I’m not a huge proponent of BigPharma, but do give two thumbs up for the Global Diabetes Handprint, inspired by Luis Emiro’s idea for the TuDiabetes Word in Your HandProject, spearheaded by Manny Hernandez, a photo contest in which hundreds of diabetics took photos of our belabored hands, sporting a word or two to sum up some aspect of life with diabetes. My contribution is to the left.

I’ll be honest; I’m not a real in-yo-face marketing type professional nor a gimmick-y prone gal, but I like this idea. And I like how simple it is: by writing a word on your hand (or on a virtual one!) and sharing a 200 word blurb about your word(s) along with your name and email address (though you can fully opt out of any correspondence with One Touch), One Touch will donate $5 to one of the following smaller diabetes organizations (best of all, you decide which one):

thanks for telling us about this. i will do both.i think both are awesome.i remember that poem when i looked at it again.now only one problem.i avoid doing any transaction on line is there another way to get your book?lol the “hand”will be stretch for me but i have vowed to do what ever i can in the d world.so thank you for the opportunity to do 2 things.

http://www.diabetesdaily.com/johnson/ Scott K. Johnson

I’m so glad that some of your stuff in in the No Sugar Added Poetry book. I’ll have to have you autograph mine when we FINALLY meet up (ahem!). :-)HEY! You should come to Minneapolis, then you can meet deanusa too! He’s pretty awesome.

http://www.diabetesdaily.com/shockley/ cherise

The NSA Poetry book is amazing. I think every PWD and non-PWD should own one.

Bonjour, i I found your blog on ask and read alot of your other pages. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the great job. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. You know, I have to tell you, I really enjoy this blog and the insight from everyone who participates. I find it to be refreshing and very informative. I wish there were more blogs like it. Anyway, I felt it was about time I posted, I?ve spent most of my time here just lurking and reading, but today for some reason I just felt compelled to say this.